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2. Anomalopteetx paeva, Owen. 

 Skull of the very fine individual skeleton in the Natural History Museum, numbered 

 A. 3, and figured and described by Owen, Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. xi. pi. Hi. 



It is an open question whether this species is distinct from didiformis ; I am 

 inclined to think it is merely a small variety, and only keep it separate in order to 

 give measurements of the type specimen. 



Figured by Owen as Lhiornis parvus. Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. xi. pi. lii. 



Genus Emeus, Eeichenbach ^. 



1. Emeus crassus, Owen. 



a. Two nearly perfect skulls from Shag Point, Otago ; in both, the premaxillae and 



bones of the palate were fixed in situ by the collector Mr. R. S. Booth -. (Otago 

 Univ. Mus.) 



b. A similar skull, from the Maniototo Plains, Otago. (Coll. II. O. Forbes.) 



c. Four less perfect skulls from Shag Point. (Otago Univ. Mus.) 



d. About fifty crania belonging to this or the next species, from Shag Point. (Otago 



Univ. Mus. and coll. A. Hamilton.) 



This species is figured by Owen as D. crassus. Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. x. pi. xxxi. 

 (Ext. Birds of N. Z. pi. cxiv.) ; the beak and mandible of the skull figured as 

 D. crassus in Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. vii. pi. xi. (Ext. Birds, pi. Ixxvii.) belongs to this 

 species, and probably the skull called D. gravis on pi. xiv. (Ext. Birds, pi. Ixxxi.). 



2. Emeus, species a. 



a. An entire skull found by Mr. E. S. Booth at Shag Point. (Otago Univ. Mus.) 



With the unimportant exception of a slight injury to the left antorbital, this 

 skull is absolutely perfect and is probably on the whole the best Moa skull ever 

 found. (See Plate LVI.) 



b. Two less perfect skulls, also fi"om Shag Point. (Otago Univ. Mus.) 



c. About fifty crania belonging either to this or to the preceding species. (Otago Univ. 



Mus. and coll. A. Hamilton.) 



This species is easily distinguished from elephantopus by the shorter and 

 narrower beak, but I can find no constant difference between the crania. 



Figured cm Plate LVI. and Plate LVIII. figs. 9 & 10. 



3. Emeus, species /3. 



The skull on the skeleton of gravis in the Canterbury Museum, so named by Sir J. von 

 Haast. (Cant. Mus.) 



This skull undoubtedly belongs to the present genus, but appears to exhibit well- 

 marked differences from the two preceding species. 



' Captain Hutton (Trans. N. Z. Inst. vol. xxvii. lSi)4) considers that this name should give way to 

 Kuriiajjieri/.r, Huast. — June 1895. 



' A similar skull was found at the same place by Prof. Hutton and was presented by him to the Britisii 

 Museum ; it is figured by Owen in Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. x. pi. xxxi., as B. crassus. Lydekker describes it an 

 Emeus, species a. 



